Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Crecencia Rangel

Titles: Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Crecencia Rangel (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Crecencia Rangel was born in Mexico City in the early 1900s and married in 1921 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She and her husband settled in St. Paul in 1928 after living in Kansas for some time. She worked in rural and urban Minnesota and was an active member of the Mexican-American community in St. Paul. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Mexico; the Mexican Revolution; working for the railroad in Kansas; work in Minnesota beet fields in Bird Island, Chaska and St. Bonifacius; problems and development of the Mexican-American community in St. Paul; social and religious groups; observance of special days among Mexican Americans; and her husband's appointment as Mexican consul in 1948 and his involvement in community affairs and in handling language problems and Mexican immigrants in St. Paul.

Dates

• 07/02/1975 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Rangel, Crecencia O.
• interviewer: Barela, Victor

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 49
• Accession Number: AV1996.92.56

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mexican-American Oral History Project' <OH 49>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 23 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:06:28 running time

Subjects

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